Tranquility Forever

 

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on Apr 15, 2012 & is copyright protected

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Supplies Needed

Beautiful scrapkit Twilight Forever PT 2 Honeymoon by Jenny here

Plugins

DC Special Nylon

Graphics Plus Cross Shadow

DSB Flux Bright Noise

Eyecandy Texture Noise

The tube I used Tranquility (7-3) is by The Vintage Angel™, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of my font is Aquarelle

I used size 48

Open new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Select all

Paste paper 3 into selection

Deselect

Apply dc special nylon using default settings

Apply graphics plus cross shadow, change the 2 bottom #'s to 70

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed & position on the lower right corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate

Hide your top tube layer

Using your freehand selection tool, select around the wings

Copy & cut

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy texture noise

Settings>crinkle noise

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking on the random seed button each time

Deselect

Rename these layers to animation 4, 5 & 6

Hide all 3

Unhide the top tube layer

Using your freehand selection tool select around the ball

Copy & cut

Paste as a new layer & position back into place

Hide & unhide this layer, if you see any movement then move the ball

Do this until you see no movement

Duplicate 2 times

Apply dsb flux bright noise intensity 40, mix checked

Repeat on other 2 layers changing intensity to 45 & 50

Deselect

Rename these layers to animation 1, 2 & 3

Delete the tube layer you just cut the ball from

You'll have 3 tube layers & 3 ball layers

Paste flower 5 as a new layer

Resize to 10%

Position in lower left corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Resize to 75%

Position next to the other one

Paste flower 4 as a new layer

Resize to 35%

Position over flower 5

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Resize to 75%

Position next to the other one

Paste flower deco as a new layer

Resize to 60%

Move to lower left corner

Add drop shadow

Move to between the flower 5 layers

Change layer properties to luminance

Open dust 3

Resize all layers to 700x700

Copy & paste as a new layer

Close original dust, dont save changes

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Duplicate & flip

Merge down

If using the same tube I am:

Copy & paste the flower layer from your tube

Resize 50%

Add drop shadow

Positon upper right corner

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

If using a different tube:

Use a flower from the kit

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide your middle & bottom animation layers

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your top animation layers & unhide the middle ones

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide your middle animation layers & unhide the bottom ones

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

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